Device for filling bottles.



PATENTED AUG. 22, 1905.

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DEVICE FOR FILLING BOTTLES.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 22. 1905.

Application led December I3, 1904- Bm'iiil No. 236,682.

Beit known that l` Hmiiivi. Ro'rii,a citizen of the United States, residing at Minneapolis, in the county of Hennepin and State of Minnesota, have invented certain new and useful improvements Bottles; and [do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description ot' the invention, such as will enable others f skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My present invention has for its especial object to provide improved means for use in filling bottles with olives, pickles, fruit, vegetables, &c and to this end it consists of the novel devices and combinations of devices hereinafter described, and defined in the claims.

To all persons familiar with the packing in bottles of articles such as those above enumerated it is a well-known fact that such articles must be assorted and packed or arranged with a great deal of care, so that those which are at the outside of the bottle and are exposed to view through the transparent walls ot' the bottle Will present an attractive appearance and so that there will be as little waste space as possible left within the bottle after it has been filled. In the process ot' packing as heretofore carried out long-jawed pincers have usually been employed by means of which the articles after being assorted or in the process of assortment are placed in the desired arrangement first at the bottom of the bottle and then are built up to the top of the bottle. This old process has been very slow and has required skilled labor chiefly because ot' the ditlcultv in properly arranging the articles at the bottom of the bottle by use of the pincers and on account of the diliculty of removing an; such articles which after having been placed in position are not found to be of the proper size to tit or make up a layer.

)Lv present invention provides an improved device b v the use of which the packing is always done at the upper end or mouth-opening of the bottle. where the articles may be packed by the use of the lingers and hence may he rapidly handled. ln a companion application. tiled of even date herewith. entitled Device for filling bottles," I have claimed E from the broadest possible point of view a bottle having a vertically-movable false bottom. In my present invention the bottle is in Devices for Filling i provided with a verticalLv-movahlc false bot` f toni which is made up of a plurality of sec- Etions that are adapted to be separately removed from working position after the bottle has been lilled or partly filled. r[he invention is illustrated in the accompanyingdraivngs, wherein like characters indicate like parts throughout the several views. Figure l is a vertical section taken through a bottle having my invention applied thereto, said section being taken approxiniateLiv on the I line .r' .r' of Fig. 2. Fig. 2 is a plan view of i the parts shown in Fig. l. Fig. 3 is a view corresponding to Fig. 1, but with certain of the parts removed; and Fig. 4 is a detail view showing in elevation one of the spoon-like false-bottom-t'orming sections.

The numeral 1 indicates a bottle which is cylindrical in form and is of course preferably made of glass.

The numeral Q indicates a hol low cylindrical core or spacing-sleeve which is of a greal deal smaller diameter than the bottle` but of approxiinately the same length. This coi-c 2 ma;1 be made of glass, metal, Celluloid, orotlicr material, but should have thin walls. ln this arrangement of the device the "false bottom," i so called. is made up of a plurality oi' sections 3, which when applied in working position alford a broken outturned flange to the lower end of the core 2 and are adapted to support articles, such as olives or pickles, which i are placed in the annular space between the boti tles wall and the wall of the core. The said bottom-forming' sections?. have somewhat the form of a spoon-bowl, and they extend lioriv zontalltv and are provided with long verticallyi @attended stems 4, preferably in. the form of J wire sections that are bent at their lower ends I to afford depressions orseats 5, that lap around I the lower edge of' the core, as shown in Fig. l.

The upper ends of the stems 4 are bent outl ward at 6 over the upper edge of the core and are. then again extended vertically upward. A loose lock-disk T is provided with peripheral notches 8, that receive the upper cnds ot' the stems 4 and hold them properly spaced and the stems intcrlocked with thc coi-c when the said lock-disk is placed in workingr position, as shown in Figs. l and 2. As is evident. when the several .so-called "spoons," miide up of the bottom .sections 3 and the Stems 4, are looked to thicorr :2 and thc said sections 3 and the lower cnil of thc i-.orc are l inserted slightly into the upper ruil ol the ment thereof muy be easily accomplished.

After the lirst layer hnsl been thus inserted the core is lowered slightly und another layer I is placed within the bottle.

Thisl process is repeated and the core is successively lowered f imtil the lower end thereof is brought nearlyl into contact with the bottom rnd of the bottle. Then the lock-disk 7 is removed andthe spoons are removed one after the other through the hollow core. This being done, the hollow coro is filled `.vith the olives, pickles, or other articles, and the core is then withdrawn` leaving the bottle lilled and with the articles in the desired arrangement.

By the use of this device bottles maybe very quickly filled and the articles may be arranged in the desired order, and this may be accomplished rapidly without requiring any particular-skill on the part ot' the packer.

From what has been said it will of course be understood that the device described is capable of a great many modifications within j r able with the upper ends of said stems, to

the scope of my invention as herein set forth and claimed. The core even when used without a projecting support or false bottom is an important feature, because it affords means for holding the outside layer of olives or other articles in a fixed arrangement adjacent to the transparent wall of the bottle. The sectional or collapsible support or false bottom may take a great many different forms and, as is evident from the. illustration given, may be in the form of skeleton or fragmentary support.

What l claim, und desire to Iweeuro by Letters luleut of tho llnileditutes, isus follows:

l. boltlc-lilliugdeviceemuprising u false bottom formed in sections sepurnbly removuble. from the bottle, und means l'or connecting' said `section, substantially as described.

2. A device lor lilling bottles comprisinga hollow core, having' ut its lower cud un outturned false bottom made up of n plurality of sections, substantially as described.

3. A device for lilliug bottles comprising a hollow core having, at its lower end, an ontwardly-projecting' false bottoni, substantially as described.

4. A device for lilling bottles comprising n hollow core and a plurality of removable bottom-forming' sections, detachably secured to the lower end of said core, and normally projecting outward therefrom` but removable through the said core` substantially as .described.

5. A device for tilling bottles comprising the hollow core Q, the plurality of bottomforming sections 3 having' stems 4, said stems being bent at 5 and 6 to interlock with the ends of said core, and the lock-disk 7, engagehold the same interlocked with said core` substantially as described.

6. A bottle-filling device, having a collapsible false bottom adapted to move vertically within the bottle, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof] affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

HENRY ROTH.

'itncsses:

RoERT O. Manni', F. l). MERCHANT. 

